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2000-PresentUpdated: 07 December 2007. Adam Wisneski, BJ '07, is one of three members of the Tulsa World staff who were honored Thursday with the Mental Health Association in Tulsa's 2009 Communication Award at the organization's annual awards ceremony. Wisneski along with Omer Gillham and Deon J. Hampton were recognized for their work on "Suicide: Hidden Epidemic," a three-day series that appeared Oct. 4-6 in the World and also featured online multimedia content. Wisneski produces video content and photos for tulsaworld.com. Added: Nov. 6, 2009Katie Fretland, BJ '08, will join the Chicago News Cooperative, a new multi-platform news venture that will offer public service reporting about Chicago for The New York Times, the city's public television station and on the Internet. She will work with Dan Mihalopoulos, BJ '96, on the city beat. Added: Nov. 2, 2009 Stephen Bell, BJ '09, is the new press assistant for Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) in his D.C. office. Bell, a native of Louisiana, previously interned for Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.). Added: Oct. 29, 2009 Blythe Terrell, BJ '05, is the city editor of the Steamboat (Colo.) Pilot & Today, effective Oct. 2. Added: Oct. 26, 2009 Ingrid Ahlgren, MA '05, and Alexander Liu were married Oct. 24 at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Manhattan. She is a freelance writer. Added: Oct. 26, 2009 Allison Mang, BJ '07, is an administrative assistant/office manager with the Tuberculosis Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health in San Francisco. Added: Oct. 19, 2009 Rebecca Norris, BJ '07, MA '08, is a strategist in the digital division of OMD in New York. Added: Oct. 19, 2009 Marissa Sharkey, BJ '08, has joined Callahan Creek, a Lawrence, Kan.-based marketing communications agency. Added: Sept. 28, 2009 Ben Kleine, BJ '09, has joined the Peabody (Kan.) Gazette-Bulletin as a sports writer and general assignment reporter. Added: Sept. 28, 2009 Amanda Kushner, BJ '09, is the new Downtown Journal reporter in Minneapolis. Added: Sept. 15, 2009 Brian Thompson, MA '09, adviser to Flagler College's student newspaper, The Gargoyle, has won the 2009 Ken Nordin Award in research from College Media Advisors, an organization of student media professionals. Thompson's winning paper, "Exploring 'Connectivity' at the College Newspaper: Can It Help Explain the Success of the Collegiate Press?," was the thesis for his master's degree in journalism. Flagler College is located in St. Augustine, Fla. Added: Sept. 11, 2009
David Ubben, BJ '09, is The Oklahoman's beat writer for the University of Oklahoma football and basketball programs. Added: Aug. 19, 2009 Aja Junior, BJ '09, is the editorial manager for the Urban Tulsa Weekly in Oklahoma. Added: Aug. 18, 2009 Nicole Sweeney Etter, BJ '01, and her husband welcomed daughter Evelyn Rose to the world on April 3. Nicole works as a senior writer/assistant editor for Marquette University's Office of Marketing and Communication. Added: Aug. 18, 2009 MSNBC.com has acquired EveryBlock, a Chicago-based Web site that offers news and information down to the neighborhood level in 15 cities, the two companies announced on Aug. 17. Until last month the startup, run by Washingtonpost.com veteran Adrian Holovaty, BJ '01, was supported by a two-year, $1.1 million grant from the Knight Foundation. Added: Aug. 18, 2009 Bill Reiter, BJ '00, and Laurie Mansfield Reiter, MA '01, are the parents of Madeline Maureen Reiter, born July 18. Both work for The Kansas City Star: Bill as the sports enterprise reporter, Laurie as the editor of Ink and inkkc.com. Added: Aug. 4, 2009 Karl Grubaugh, MA '00, was named the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund's 2008 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. He serves as the adviser of The Granite Bay Gazette at Granite Bay (Calif.) High School. Added: July 22, 2009 Scott Schaefer, BJ '04, and Sarah Hill, BJ '93, won a national Edward R. Morrow Award in the feature reporting category for "The Magic Tree," part of the "Sarah's Stories" series. The Radio-Television News Directors Association, the industry's leading trade organization, sponsors the competition. Both Schaefer and Hill serve as adjunct professors at the Missouri School of Journalism and work at KOMU-TV. Added: July 20, 2009
Pamela Riemenschneider, BJ '02, a veteran writer, photographer and videographer for The Packer, on July 7 became the editor for Produce Merchandising magazine, a Vance Publishing Corp. sister publication. She will continue to write and shoot photos for The Packer, focusing on stories with retail angles. Added: July 13, 2009 Abby Callard, BJ '09, has been selected for the prestigious internship at the Smithsonian magazine in Washington, D.C. She was one of approximately 150 applicants for the six-months-paid position. While in School, Callard won the Don Romero Writing Award and was a Discovery Fellow and a Walter Williams Scholar. She also worked for Slate.com while a participant in the School's Washington Program. Added: May 29, 2009 Beth Lauver, BJ '03, is the new director of the Respect Life Apostolate in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Added: May 28, 2009 Miun Seo Gleeson, BJ '03, is a senior communications specialist for a national regulatory organization in Kansas City. She is also a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, pursuing her doctoral degree in English and history. Added: May 18, 2009 Sean McDonnell, BJ '05, will graduate magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in June. He has accepted a clerkship with the Federal District Court in Chicago following his admission to the bar. Added: May 7, 2009 Julie Scheidegger, BJ '01, is a photographer for the Lee's Summit (Mo.) Journal. Added: April 29, 2009 Timothy McCormick, BJ '02, has been named the editorial manager for Playboy. Added: April 28, 2009 Aaron Rothenburger, MA '05, teaches English as a second language in Tempe, Ariz. Added: March 30, 2009 Elise Hu, BJ '03, has worked as the state political reporter for KVUE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Austin, Texas, since fall 2006. Since starting in the post, she's been recognized by Texas AP broadcasters three years in a row for best beat reporting on Texas politics. She is also a political contributor to the Belo Texas cluster of TV stations, including WFAA-TV (Dallas), KHOU-TV (Houston) and KENS-TV (San Antonio). Hu joins five fellow Mizzou J-School alumni who are part of the Texas Capitol press corps. Added: March 30, 2009 Jensen Moore, PhD '07, will join the West Virginia University faculty this summer and serve in two capacities. She is the new director of undergraduate online programs for the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism and will oversee curriculum development and promotion of the program. Moore also is a tenure-track assistant professor and will teach integrated marketing communication courses in the areas of advertising, new media, health communication, quantitative research methods and mass communication theory. Added: March 26, 2009 Shahira Fahmy, PhD '03, joined the University of Arizona in August 2008 as an associate professor in the School of Journalism. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Fahmy spent five years working in the news and broadcast industries in Egypt and Italy before pursuing her doctoral studies at the Missouri School of Journalism in 2000. She has traveled to more than 20 countries and is fluent in four languages, skills that enabled her to conduct surveys with embedded reporters worldwide and to conduct surveys of audiences of Arabic satellite channels in more than 67 countries. Fahmy's research interests primarily focus on visual communication with an international perspective, as well as political communication and media performance during wartime. She has more than 75 refereed publications and convention papers. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Mass Communication & Society, International Communication Gazette, Visual Communication Quarterly and Newspaper Research Journal. Fahmy is currently a manuscript reviewer for six scholarly journals and is on the editorial board of Mass Communication & Society, Visual Communication Quarterly, Media, War & Conflict and two international editions of the Global Media Journal. Added: March 20, 2009 The Oklahoma Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists named Oklahoma State University assistant journalism professor Ray Murray, MA '05, the Teacher of the Year. Murray has been credited with helping revitalize the university’s long-dormant SPG chapter and serves as its co-adviser. Added: March 13, 2009 Amanda Lucier, MA '08, was named the Indiana Press Photographer of the Year. Lucier currently has an internship at the Jasper Herald in Indiana. A substantial part of her winning portfolio is her master's project. Added: March 13, 2009 Amy Fiscus, BJ '03, is an editor on the East Regional Desk at The Associated Press. The desk files all copy for 10 states. Added: March 9, 2009 Veronica Toney, BJ '05, MA '06, is an associate editor for Better Homes and Gardens.com in Des Moines, Iowa. She focuses on home design and regularly posts on Better Blog, the BHG staff blog. Added: March 4, 2009 Jon Franko, BJ '05, has opened Gorilla 76, an advertising, Web development and brand elevation agency in St. Louis. Added: March 4, 2009
Herman Chiu, PhD '04, died in Corvallis, Ore., on Oct. 18, 2008. A champion chess player, Chiu also was recognized for his scholarship. He received an award in 2005 for a paper submitted to American Journalism Historians Association competition titled, "Me Melican Man: How Four California Newspapers Vilified the Chinese Who Built the First Transcontinental Railroad," Added: Feb. 18, 2009 Derek Kravitz, BJ '07, is a staff writer covering politics and government in Loudoun County, Va., for The Washington Post. Added: Feb. 17, 2009 Scott Schaefer, BJ '04, earned first place wins in two categories submitted to the National Press Photographers Association Quarterly Clip Contest for region seven. Schaefer, a videographer for KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo., won in the feature and in-depth categories. Added: Feb. 17, 2009 Alonso Soto, BJ '05, was named Latin America's Reporter of the Year by international news agency Thomson Reuters. Soto reports from Ecuador. [More] Added: Feb. 16, 2009 Two graduate students -- one former and one current -- won first and third place in the student category of the Society of Environmental Journalists national awards contest. Gavin Off, MA '08, won first place for "Lessons in Leniency," an article published May 6 in the Columbia Daily Tribune while he was still a student at the School. Off is now the computer-assisted reporting editor at the Tulsa (Okla.) World. His story recounted the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' history of reducing penalties filed against large animal farms for pollution violations. Katherine Harmon, a master's student, won third place for "Murky Waters," published Nov. 10, 2007, in the Columbia Missourian. The story detailed the evolving scientific understanding of Missouri River sediment and the impact that understanding is having on resource management, agriculture, public policy and people. Added: Feb. 13, 2009 The professional analysis from the master's project by Alisa Booze Troetschel, MA '07, was the cover story in the January 2009 issue of News Photographer. Serving on her committee were associate professors Jackie Bell, chair, and David Rees as well as Byron Scott, professor emeritus. The magazine blurb reads: "The January 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story by Alisa Booze Troetschel about shooting for non-profits and charities and NGOs as a career-building and portfolio-expanding exercise, as well as nurturing the photographer's soul while also building some new business." Added: Feb. 13, 2009 Janelle Walker, BJ '06, has been promoted to training supervisor with Hy-Vee, Inc., based in Des Moines. Added: Feb. 9, 2009 Amanda Jacobs, BJ '08, has been named city editor of the Pekin (Ill.) Daily Times. She has served as the Times' county reporter since September. While a student, Jacobs was selected as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing intern at the San Francisco Chronicle. Added: Feb. 9, 2009 Christie Kiely, BJ '07, is a creative specialist with Salmat DigitalForce in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Added: Jan. 27, 2009
Scott Ward, BJ '04, is the assistant director of athletic media relations at the University of Northern Colorado. He previously served as sports-desk director for Sun Newspapers in Gladstone, Mo. Ward and his wife Sarah, BS '04 (elementary education) were married on Oct. 9, 2005. Added: Jan. 26, 2009 The master's degree project of Jeronimo Nisa Luna, MA '08, will be broadcast on Kansas City's Public Broadcasting KCPT Channel 19 at 8 p.m. on January 29. "Keeping the Tradition Alive in Little Dixie: Fiddling in Missouri" is a blend of video and still photography and runs about 30 minutes. Jero is a staff photographer at the Decatur (Ala.) Daily. Added: Jan. 7, 2009 Renee Banot, BJ '04, and Kevin Hinkle, BA '03, were married on July 5, 2008, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Columbia, Mo. She is a reporter for FOX-TV, and he is a newscast director for KSTP-TV, Minneapolis, Minn. Added: Dec. 22, 2008 Janet Hoth, BJ '03, and John Fogarty III, BS '02, married in Kansas City, Mo., on Sept. 27, 2008. Added: Dec. 18, 2008 Justin Heckert, BJ '02, has a story included in The Best American Crime Reporting 2008, published by HarperCollins. The piece, "I'm with the Steelers," about a Pittsburgh con who impersonated several Steelers players, ran in ESPN The Magazine in May 2007. Added: Dec. 9, 2008 Patrick Healy, BJ '03, returned to The New York Times in October 2008. He writes under the byline of Jack (his real first name) Healy. Updated: Dec. 4, 2008 Joshua Wright, BJ '99, married Colleen Pauley, BJ '04, on Aug. 16 in Upper Arlington, Ohio. Both are copy editors at the Columbus Dispatch; Josh in sports, Colleen in news. Added: Dec. 2, 2008 Katherine Johanns, BJ '02 (magazine journalism), received a 2008 Rising Star Scholarship from the Angerosa Research Foundation in Alexandria, Va. Through the Rising Star program, the foundation awards professional development scholarships to emerging leaders working in association communications. Johanns edits the quarterly magazine of the Association of Texas Professional Educators, the nation's largest independent educators' association. Added: Nov. 24, 2008 Gavin Off, MA '08, is the data editor at the Tulsa (Okla.) World. Added: Nov. 24, 2008 The American Journalism Historians Association recently recognized Brenda Edgerton-Webster, MA '00, PhD '07, as a finalist for the 2008 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize. She received a cash award and a plaque in recognition of this honor. The title of her dissertation was "The Tale of Two Voices: An Oral History of Women Communicators from Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 and a New Black Feminist Concept." Earnest L. Perry, chair of journalism studies, served as her adviser. AJHA's dissertation prize was established in 1997 and named for the late Margaret A. Blanchard in 2003. Blanchard was a First Amendment scholar and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was especially known for her guidance of doctoral students of journalism history. Added: Nov. 24, 2008 Benjamin McClanahan, BJ '01, is the digital content strategy manager for Penton Media, the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S. Added: Nov. 24, 2008 Thomas Foster, MA '00, and Samantha Schabel were married Nov. 8 at iCi, a restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is an articles editor at Fast Company, a business magazine, in Manhattan. Added: Nov. 10, 2008 Emily Peurrung, BJ '06, has joined the Show-Me State Games in Columbia, Mo., as marketing and media coordinator. Added: Nov. 10, 2008 Kelly Crull, BJ '06, has joined the SportsXtra team at KOCO in Oklahoma City. Added: Oct. 31, 2008 Jason Brightfield, BJ '04, died Sept. 23 after a four-year battle with cancer. He blogged about his experience at http://www.teamjason.org/blog/?p=96. Added: Oct. 2, 2008 Samantha Friedman, MA '07, is one of 25 central Arkansas women selected for the inaugural class of Emerging Leaders, a Women's Foundation of Arkansas program designed to inspire, educate and empower the group to affect social change. She is the high profile writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Added: Oct. 2, 2008 Allison Ross, BJ '08, earned second place in the Chandler Award national competition for three articles she wrote as a student during the 2007-2008 academic year. She received $300 and a plaque on Sept. 20 at the Religion Newswriters Association conference in Washington, D.C. The Chandler Award recognizes excellence in writing with emphasis on reporting skill and grasp of religion issues that is fair, balanced and in accordance with journalistic standards. It is named for Russell Chandler, an award-winning former religion writer for the Los Angeles Times. Added: Sept. 30, 2008 Mindy Stone, BJ '01, married Kevin Tappan on Aug. 3, 2008. Added: Sept. 24, 2008 Four Missouri Journalism graduates have been included in the book The Best American Sports Writing 2008, edited by William Nack, veteran sportswriter and author of the classic Secretariat. A piece by Wright Thompson, BJ '01, "Behind the Bamboo Curtain," examines pre-Olympics China and is included in its entirety in the book. John Sahly, BJ '07, was named to the book's notable list for his piece on softball published in the Aurora (Ohio) Beacon Journal. He currently covers Northern Illinois University sports for the DeKalb (Ill.) Daily Chronicle. Additionally, ESPN The Magazine writer Seth Wickersham, BJ '00, and Kansas City (Mo.) Star writer Bill Reiter, BJ '00, also made the book's notable list. Added: Sept. 22, 2008 Miun Seo Gleeson, BJ '03, received a Master of Arts in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2007. She is grants specialist for a nonprofit agency and also writes for Urban Times, Her Life, Kansas City Homes & Gardens and other publications. Added: Sept. 22, 2008 Jean Chung, MA '03, won the inaugural Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association grant for her photography project, "Tears in Congo." Annie Boulat, the mother of the late photojournalist Alexandra Boulat and the widow of Life magazine photographer Pierre Boulat, announced the grant this week from Paris. The winning Boulat grant proposal from Chung was for the continuation of her Congo project, which is already in progress. She has documented the aftermath of sexual violence committed by Congolese and Rwandan rebels and some of the hundreds of thousands of women who have been victims of the violence during the interethnic conflict. Chung is a freelance photojournalist who shoots for World Picture Network in New York and Onasia in Bangkok. Previously she received the CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage in 2007 for "Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan," and her work has been widely published in major newspapers and magazines. Updated: Sept. 19, 2008 Becky (Marxer) Ericson, BJ '04, MA '05, married Matt Ericson, a senior auditor for KPMG, on April 19, 2008. Ericson is an internal communications consultant at Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis. The couple recently purchased their first home in Saint Louis Hills. Added: Sept. 7, 2008 Todd R. Peglow, BJ '04, of Westwood, Kan., died Aug. 7 at Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, Mo. Added: Aug. 18, 2008 Christie Ly, BJ '00, married Bruce Feldman, a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, on June 7, 2008. Updated: Aug. 5, 2008
Justin Herndon, BJ '03, an award-winning former news reporter, has joined Selig Multimedia, Inc. as director of publicity and news. The company owns and operates the premier public relations and publicity firm, The Publicity Agency, based in Tampa, Fla. Herndon is also the president-elect of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the University of Missouri Alumni Association. Added: July 29, 2008
Carly Kaufman, BJ '03, has been promoted to public relations senior account executive at Osborn & Barr Communications in St. Louis. Updated: June 23, 2007 Brooke Williams, BJ '01, is an investigative reporter on a computer-assisted reporting team at The San Diego Union-Tribune. In 2005, she was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for an investigation of the city's land holdings. Williams previously worked as a writer for the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., where she wrote a chapter in The Buying of the President, a best-selling book. She also was a writer for Windfalls of War, an investigation of federal contracts for work in Iraq and Afghanistan, which won a George Polk Award. Added: June 11, 2008 Keith Ecker, BJ '04, recently left his position at B2B magazine to pursue a career in comedy. For the past two years, Ecker has been an actor, writer, improviser and stand-up comedian. He said, "My life outside of work quickly began to eclipse my day job. Now I'm taking the plunge but relying on my education as a crutch to help subsidize my living. I will be in search of various freelance clients, many of which will likely be in the legal sector which is where my real-world experience lies." Added: June 3, 2008 Ellen Miller, BJ '04, is associate editor at Allure magazine in New York City. She covers beauty, fitness and fashion. Added: June 3, 2008
Jessica Gottlieb, BJ '02, graduated from Duke University in May 2008 with a Master of Environmental Management degree. She subsequently moved to Washington, D.C., and started a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service as an agricultural economist and Presidential Management Fellow. Added: June 2, 2008 Shoshana Lewin Fischer, BJ '00, is chief copy editor for Los Angeles Jewish Publications Inc., including The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, the largest Jewish paper west of the Mississippi. She also writes the Jewlywed (Jewish newlywed) blog for the paper's Web site, in addition to articles about the cast members at Disneyland and Walt Disney World for the Disney trip-planning Web site, MousePlanet.com. She and her husband live in Reseda, Calif. Added: May 27, 2008
Heather Cottle, BJ '07, won the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award sponsored by the Special Libraries Association. The award provides a $1,500 stipend to assist graduate students attending their first Special Libraries Association Annual conference, which will be June 15-18 in Seattle. Cottle is currently a graduate student at MU's School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, and she works as a graduate assistant in the Frank Lee Martin Memorial Library at the Missouri School of Journalism. Added: May 12, 2008 Amy Smith, BJ '05, MA '07, is a senior account executive at Fleishman-Hillard in Kansas City. She works on behalf of consumer and healthcare clients. Added: May 9, 2008 Mark Greenblatt, BJ '00, a reporter for KHOU-TV in Houston, is a finalist for the 2007 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. The Livingstons, the nation's largest all-media, general reporting prizes, award three $10,000 prizes for Local, National, and International Reporting to journalists under the age of 35. The winners will be announced on June 4, 2008. Greenblatt is a member of the KHOU Defenders, an investigative reporting team that won the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 2005. [More] Updated: May 8, 2008 Wright Thompson, BJ '01, a writer for ESPN.com, is a finalist for the 2007 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. The Livingstons, the nation's largest all-media, general reporting prizes, award three $10,000 prizes for Local, National, and International Reporting to journalists under the age of 35. The winners will be announced on June 4, 2008. Added: May 8, 2008 Zack Ottenstein, BJ '05, is the investigative reporter for WTVG, the ABC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. Added: April 29, 2008 Erica Brooks, BJ '04, is associate art director at McMurry in Phoenix, where she oversees the design of several custom-published magazines. Brooks accepted the position after taking several months out of the world of employment to travel to Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Added: April 28, 2008 Traci Angel, MA '07, is the Missouri School of Journalism's recipient of the 2008 Merck Science Journalism Award in recognition of her outstanding work in science and health writing. In addition to receiving a $1,000 monetary award and plaque, Angel participated in a four-day conference at Rutgers University along with 11 other student winners from journalism schools throughout the United States and Canada. Angel served as a Knight Editing Fellow at the School for the 2005-2006 academic year, working as the co-editor of the general assignment beat at the Columbia Missourian. Added: April 28, 2008
Danielle McClure, BJ '03, is a writer and editor at Soap Opera Digest in New York City. Previously, she was a staff writer for Black & White, an alternative weekly in Birmingham, Ala. McClure also has written features and reviews for music Web site Prefix, Time Out New York and Comic Foundry magazines. Added: March 31, 2008 Katie Shaw, BJ '04, is an account supervisor on the Sonic account at BARKLEY in Kansas City, Mo. Added: March 31, 2008 Lesley Eberts, BJ '05, is working as strategic director for the Republik, a Durham, N.C.-based advertising agency. Added: March 31, 2008 Rob Sandler, BJ '03, is managing editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times. Added: March 21, 2008 Jason Rosenbaum, BJ '06, is the state government reporter for the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune. Added: March 19, 2008
Katie Zeidman, BJ '05, is an account executive at Blick & Staff Communications in St. Louis. Updated: March 7, 2008 Darbi Gibson, BJ '04, works at Columbia College in the public relations and marketing department. She also has a creative lifestyle and wedding photography side business, Darbi G. Photography & Design. Gibson specializes in documenting weddings, family, babies, children, maternity and bands in a fun, edgy and relaxed style. Updated: Feb. 28, 2008 Kyle McDaniel, MA '07, is the assistant photo editor at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison. He has previously worked as a staff photographer and photo editor for several publications, including The Columbia Missourian. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Julie Vadnal, BJ '07, is an editorial assistant at Elle magazine. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Katie (Eckerberg) Burgess, BJ '02, is an account executive at Koroberi, a business-to-business agency in Chapel Hill, N.C. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Alfredo Flores, BJ '01, is a freelance music and entertainment reporter for various newspapers and magazines in the Washington, D.C., area. He has interviewed and reported on various Latin and pop culture artists ranging from Juanes and Manu Chao to Calle 13 and the Blue Man Group. Flores lives in Washington, D.C. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Kristen (Hendricks) Miller, BJ '02, has been named associate art director of custom publishing at Cleveland Magazine in Cleveland, Ohio. She was most recently the design editor at Crain's Cleveland Business. Added: Feb. 12, 2008 Ashley (Swymeler) Roeber, BJ '02, is the assistant manager of media at Kohl's Department Stores in Menomonee Falls, Wis. Added: Feb. 12, 2008 Angela Martin-Giles, BJ '01, is a morning reporter and noon anchor for KVBC, the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas. Added: Jan. 17, 2008
Ryan McClure, BJ '03, is an account supervisor in the public affairs practice group at Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis. He is engaged to Beth Bishop, BJ '04. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Daniel Bueckman, BJ '02, MA '03, is a media supervisor at MindShare in New York City. He works on the interactive sports and entertainment marketing part of the Sprint Nextel account. Updated: Jan. 16, 2008 Andrea Leptinsky, BJ '04, is features editor at BostonNOW in the heart of Beantown. "I couldn't have asked for a better job!" she said. Updated: Jan. 11, 2008 Ainslie (Geeser) Gordon, BJ '02, is the marketing coordinator for Sendouts in Clayton, Mo. She is married to Nick Gordon, BA '01. Added: Jan. 9, 2008
Mary de Villiers, BJ '00, is the international recruiter for Loyola University Chicago. Her work centers on traveling to various recruitment events around the world to promote the university to prospective undergraduate and graduate students. She also assists with strategic international admissions planning as well as the university's global relationship-building efforts. Updated: Dec. 26, 2007 Matt Dykstra, BJ '05, is the Miller Brewing Company sales manager of the state of Oklahoma. Added: Dec. 18, 2007
Allison (McLaughlin) Sit, BJ '01, is a public relations specialist for the American Academy of Dermatology in Schaumburg, Ill. Added: Dec. 14, 2007 Cameron Ross, BJ '06, is an assistant broadcast negotiator at MindShare Chicago. Added: Dec. 14, 2007 Heather Carlson, MA '04, is an area reporter for the Rochester (Minn.) Post-Bulletin newspaper. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Karl Grubaugh, MA '00, teaches government, economics and journalism and advises the award-winning student newspaper at Granite Bay High School outside Sacramento, Calif. A former assistant sports editor and sports editor at the Columbia Missourian, Grubaugh attended MU from 1989-1991 and finally finished his master's project nine years later (he said he doesn't recommend this approach). He also works an occasional shift as an on-call copy editor at the Sacramento Bee and does some freelance writing and editing. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Jennifer Gordon, BJ '01, is a national reporter with American Banker. Gordon, who interned with American Banker while participating in the Washington Program as a student, said it is interesting to return to the paper as a reporter. Updated: Dec. 13, 2007
Whitney (Pool) Richardson, BJ '04, BA '04, is deputy managing editor at KCI Communications, Inc., an investment newsletter publisher in Falls Church, Va. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Ben Carmichael, BJ '02, is a senior account executive in the New York office of Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates. He is a member of the agency's medical team, focusing on investor relations and corporate communications. Updated: Dec. 5, 2007
Almitra Smith, BJ '06, has been named public relations coordinator for the American Red Cross of Greater Kansas City. Previously, she was the first evening Web producer for KSHB-TV 41, an NBC affiliate in Kansas City, Mo. Added: Nov. 14, 2007 Autumn Brewington, BJ '01, is assistant editorial page editor of The Washington Post. She started at The Post as a summer intern in 2001 and edited on the national and business copy desks before moving to the editorial department in January 2004. Brewington was promoted to op-ed editor in January 2007. Added: Oct. 25, 2007 Trin Zhuo, MA '02, is an MBA candidate at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as an associate producer for the public affairs program Washington Week on PBS before attending business school. Added: Oct. 22, 2007 Chris Stewart, BJ '02, is the director of Web communications at the University of Denver. Added: Oct. 16, 2007
Sara Louise Hiatt, BJ '03, is the art director at Baseball America magazine, a national publication based in Durham, N.C. Previously, she worked as a features designer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and as a staff writer and columnist for the Alibi, an alternative weekly in Albuquerque, N.M. Added: Oct. 12, 2007 Cameo Carlson, MA '00, is senior vice president of digital business development for the Universal Motown Records Group. She is the former manager of music programming and label relations for iTunes and a former rock and alternative programmer for AOL's radio products. Added: Oct. 12, 2007 Philip Yi, BJ '01, completed his military service and now works as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in Atlanta, Ga. Updated: Oct. 11, 2007 Ann Hynek, BJ '05, is an associate producer at FOX Business Channel. Added: Sept. 25, 2007
Katie McPartland, BJ '06, is an account executive at Datacore Marketing, LLC, in Kansas City. Added: Sept. 17, 2007 Rebecca Williams, BJ '04, is a content supervisor at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Miami. Currently working on Nike Running and Nike+, Williams has worked on the Miller Lite, Miller High Life, KNOW HIV/AIDS (a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and Viacom), Wolfsonian and EarthLink accounts in her more than three years with the agency. Added: Sept. 11, 2007 Laura (Donald) Hulett, BJ '00, is the marketing manager for STOA Architects in Pensacola, Fla. Added: Sept. 4, 2007 Natalie Swallow, BJ '07, works at SPRY, the ABC affiliate in Springfield, Mo. Added: Aug. 29, 2007 Liz (Underwood) Drouin, BJ '03, is an account executive at DraftFCB in Chicago. She works on the Herradura and El Jimador tequila brands. Added: Aug. 28, 2007 Stephen Hall, BJ '03, is the communication supervisor for the American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter, where he is responsible for media and government relations. Hall and his wife, Allison, have a two-year-old son, Jacob, and are expecting their second child in September 2007. Added: Aug. 27, 2007 Eric Chaney, BJ '02, is an editor with Whitman Books in Atlanta, Ga., working on their College Football Vault series. Added: Aug. 23, 2007
Laura Bruegge, BJ '02, has joined Vangel Marketing Communications as a public relations account executive. Vangel is headquartered in Columbia, Mo. Added: Aug. 20, 2007 Meg Graeff, BJ '06, relocated to the Boulder, Colo., office of Crispin Porter + Bogusky in June. An assistant content manager, she previously worked out of the agency's Miami office. Added: Aug. 17, 2007 Jamie Schmidt, BJ '00, and Jake Wagman, BJ '00, are engaged to be married. Schmidt is starting her second year in a doctoral program in American Studies at Saint Louis University, and Wagman is the city hall reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Added: Aug. 15, 2007 Erin Eschen Liford, BJ '04, is the search marketing lead and Web master at Scottrade, the leading branch-supported online investment firm based in St. Louis, Mo. Liford will manage the firm's paid and natural search marketing and serve as the manager and Web master of the firm's public Web sites, including Scottrade.com. She previously held multiple positions at Belleville, Ill.-based MonsterCommerce, a division of Network Solutions. Added: Aug. 15, 2007 Bryan Reber, PhD '01, was promoted to associate professor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Added: Aug. 13, 2007 Anne (Bussman) Baggott, BJ '00, is an associate attorney at the Kansas City, Mo., office of Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice, L.L.C. She and her husband recently celebrated their son's first birthday. Added: July 31, 2007 Ryan Famuliner, BJ '07, is a general assignment reporter at WNDU-TV in South Bend, Ind. Added: July 31, 2007
Kristen Watkins, BJ '06, is a public affairs development trainee at The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mich. Added: July 25, 2007 Julie Adelsberger, BJ '02, was promoted to senior manager of special projects at Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits manager in St. Louis, Mo. Updated: July 23, 2007 Sarah (Orlovick) Bueno, BJ '02, has joined the global advertising team for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Plano, Texas. She spent four years in account service at two of the top advertising agencies in Dallas, Texas, before switching to the client side. Added: July 23, 2007 Katie Beck, BJ '04, is a producer at WBBH NBC-2 in Fort Myers, Fla. Added: July 23, 2007 Jessica (Thornsberry) Hartman, BJ '06, is an account coordinator for Osborn & Barr Communications in St. Louis, Mo. Added: July 23, 2007
Jonathan Hall, BJ '00, is the publications adviser and a social studies teacher at McCluer North High School in Florissant, Mo. He married Jackie Pirtle, a former Mizzou cross country and track runner, on June 16, 2007. Added: July 23, 2007 Jessica Furst, BJ '03, graduated from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in May and has been hired as an associate with Foley & Lardner's Washington, D.C., office. Updated: July 23, 2007 Blaire (Leible) Garwitz, MA '06, is the associate editor of alumni periodicals at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Added: July 23, 2007 Sarah Jancich, BJ '00, is the director of Web development at Home Front Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based broadcast public relations firm. She earned a master's degree in electronic communications and publishing from University College London (United Kingdom) in September 2006. Updated: July 23, 2007 Joshua Kaufman, BJ '00, is an executive producer at Oak Brook Productions (CLTV) in Chicago, Ill., where he produces the weekly real estate show, HomesPlus. Added: July 23, 2007 Mora Thompson, BJ '03, works at Fleishman-Hillard, Inc. in the Kansas City, Mo. office. She completed her master's degree in public relations at Boston University. Previously, she worked at Bernstein-Rein Advertising in Kansas City, Mo. Added: July 23, 2007 Laine Harper, BJ '04, graduated in May 2007 with an MBA in marketing and international business from Loyola University Chicago. She is a project manager for creative services at Marsh, the world's leading insurance brokerage, in Chicago, Ill. Added: July 23, 2007 Eric Moyer, BJ '03, is the director of communications for the Atlantic Sun Conference, headquartered in Macon, Ga. Prior to joining the A-Sun Conference, Moyer worked in the research department at ESPN. Added: July 23, 2007
Brandt Merritt, BJ '06, is a sports copy editor/designer at The Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Fla. Added: July 18, 2007 Matthew Mitchell, BJ '07, is a hotdogger with Oscar Mayer based in Madison, Wis. Added: July 18, 2007 Ashley Douglas, BJ '06, is a brand manager/account executive for The Richards Group in Dallas, Texas. Added: July 18, 2007 Lauren Bacon, BJ '03, MA '04, will start her doctoral studies in the MU Department of Communication this fall. She will focus her research on nonprofits and will teach two courses. Added: July 17, 2007 Rachel Kaatmann, BJ '06, became engaged to Jeffrey Peine, BA '05 (political science) June 11 in front of Cinderella's Castle in Walt Disney World. She is a reporter for the Suburban Journals in St. Charles, Mo. Updated: July 17, 2007 Ashley Trent, BJ '07, is an associate editor at Home Decor Buyer magazine. She writes and edits departments and features, and she will scout for new home furnishings at gift and home shows in Atlanta, Ga., Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y., and High Point, N.C. Home Decor Buyer, published by Hoyt Publishing Co., Skokie, Ill., is the nation's largest-circulation business magazine covering home furnishings. Added: July 11, 2007 Beth Naser Werling, BJ '99, MA '04, and husband Jason welcomed Payton Porter Werling on Feb. 8, 2007. He joins his brother, William Vincent Werling, who was born Sept. 5, 2005. Added: July 11, 2007
Julian Pecquet, MA '03, a staff writer at the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat, is among 13 World Affairs Journalism Fellows, a program administered by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and sponsored by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, with additional funding from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Fellows will report from 15 countries for up to three weeks on issues that are vital to their local communities. Added: July 11, 2007
Ellada Gamreklidze, MA '04, is the project associate of the BBC World Service Trust Community Radio Project for Georgia. Added: June 13, 2007 Emily Givens, BJ '01, is a weekend evening anchor at KCCI Television in Des Moines, Iowa. Added: June 13, 2007 Andrew Barton, BJ '00, is the head of creative for Build-A-Bear Workshop, the original make-your-own stuffed animal retailer based in St. Louis, Mo. Added: June 13, 2007 After finishing an undergraduate degree in news editing and design and a master's degree in media management, Chris Heisel, BJ '01, MA '03, took a job with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in its online department. After several years and job changes there, he is now director of online development for the paper's Web sites. Added: June 13, 2007 Rajah Maples-Wallace, MA '03, an anchor/reporter at KHQA (CBS) in Quincy, Ill., won an award from the Iowa Broadcast News Association for a story she wrote, shot and produced about radon in homes. She also is a doctoral student at the Missouri School of Journalism. Added: June 8, 2007 Paige McDowell, BJ '03, is an attorney with the firm Goeldner & Walsh in Southaven, Miss., a suburb of Memphis, Tenn. Added: June 7, 2007
Jessica (Little) Pupillo, BJ '01, and her husband Sam announce the birth of their twin sons, Charles and Zachary, born in March 2006. Pupillo is a freelance writer in St. Louis, Mo. Added: June 7, 2007
Courtney (McCall) Jordan, BJ '00, is the director of communications, marketing and alumni relations at Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, Mo. She is married to Omar Jordan. Added: June 7, 2007 Angela (Beetsma) Allen, BJ '01, is the director of marketing for FBD Consulting, Inc., a regional benefits consulting company headquartered in Overland Park, Kan. She has been with FBD since graduating from Mizzou. Allen and her husband, who is also a Mizzou graduate, are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary this year. Added: June 5, 2007
Anya Litvak, MA '06, was a member of a team of writers that won a first-place Keystone Award for spot news coverage of the Amish killings in Lancaster, Pa. She has covered county government for the city's newspaper, New Era, since August 2006. The award is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. Added: May 25, 2007
Kristen Jump, BJ '07, is a reporter for the Rolla (Mo.) Daily News. Added: May 24, 2007
Kim Singletary, BJ '02, finished her Master's degree at Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, Technology program in 2006. Her thesis examined USA-specific images of American blackness found in German popular media and how those exported images are used to represent black Americans to the German populace. She is now assistant director of communications at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. Added: May 18, 2007
Lauren Whitney, BJ '07, joined KOMU News Today as a co-anchor in May following her graduation. She anchors the 5:30 a.m. weekday newscasts with Megan Murphy and Eric Aldrich. Whitney also oversees KOMU's Target 8 series, which airs every Tuesday night on KOMU News at 10 p.m. Added: May 9, 2007
Augustine (Gus) Pang, PhD '06, has accepted a faculty position at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, starting July 2007. Pang says that he will be joining Hao Xiaoming, MA '90, PhD '93, to assert the Missouri Journalism tradition in that part of the world. Added: May 2, 2007 Sarah Protzman, BJ '04, works for PARS International in New York City. Added: May 2, 2007
Kate Certain, BJ '04, is an account executive at Bernstein-Rein Advertising in Kansas City, Mo. Added: April 16, 2007
Josh Eiserike, MA '05, had a cartoon published in the book Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression, edited by David Wallis. Cartoonists featured in the book include Pulitzer Prize winners Mike Luckovich and Garry Trudeau, among others. As a graduate student, Eiserike won first place in the editorial cartooning category of the 2005 Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence Awards. Added: April 5, 2007
Memorial services were held Feb. 15 for Nichole Pingel, BJ '04, at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo. Added: March 19, 2007
Jennifer (Clark) Pinto, BJ '01, is an associate editor at Residential Lighting and Accessory Merchandising magazines, two Chicago-based trade publications for the home furnishings industry. Added: Feb. 27, 2007
Alexis Worley, BJ '05, works for Zipatoni, a marketing and advertising agency. Based in Chicago, Ill., Worley is on the Beam Global team, working with the brands Jim Beam, DeKuyper Liqueurs and Starbucks Liqueurs. Zipatoni Beam team members also include Missouri Journalism graduates Laura Zimmer, BJ '06, and Melissa Lampe, BJ '02. Worley has completed two marathons and is competing in Chicago's August triathlon. Last September, she spent three weeks in China on vacation. Added: Feb. 21, 2007
Megan Happ, BJ '01, is a senior copywriter at Ogilvy, a worldwide advertising and public relations agency. Happ is based in Chicago, Ill. Added: Feb. 20, 2007 Kari Schrage, MA '00, is the communication consultant for the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison. She and her husband, Bill, have two daughters, Sidney (5) and Jolie (1). Added: Feb. 20, 2007 Dan Purschwitz, BJ '04, won the 2006 John Murphy Award for Excellence in Copy Editing from the Texas Daily Newspaper Association. Purschwitz is a copy editor at the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram. Added: Feb. 20, 2007
Jeff Inglis, MA '00, is the managing editor of the Portland (Maine) Phoenix. Added: Feb. 15, 2007 Tony Reed, BJ '00, is the assistant creative services director at KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, N.M. Added: Feb. 15, 2007
Francie (Krantz) Williamson, BJ '00, is the page one editor at the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa. Her husband, Dan Williamson, is photo editor at the Iowa City Press-Citizen in Iowa City, Iowa. Added: Feb. 15, 2007
Theresa Coulter, BJ '03, is a copywriter for Digitas Inc., a New York-based advertising agency. Added: Feb. 14, 2007 Joshua Cobb, MA '03, is a page designer/copyeditor at The Examiner in Beaumont, Texas, and an adjunct journalism instructor at Lamar University. Added: Feb. 13, 2007
Lauren (Sydenstricker) Keith, BJ '01, is the morning anchor for KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Keith also has a weekly consumer report segment titled, "Does it Work Wednesday?" Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Marisa Fletcher, BJ '06, is the marketing coordinator at Walton Construction Company, LLC in Kansas City, Mo. Fletcher's responsibilities include proposal production, event planning, recruitment, production of ads/marketing materials and business development. Added: Feb. 13, 2007
Kelli Brown, BJ '02, is working at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pa., after six years at the Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal. Brown edits Blue Weekly, a tabloid section for the 18-34 demographic, in addition to serving as an assistant city editor and web producer. She said she is enjoying the change of pace after several years of work in design. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Craig Olsen, BJ '06, is attending the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Alonso Soto, BJ '05, is working as the sole English correspondent for Reuters in Ecuador. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Scott Serio, BJ '94, is a detective sergeant for the Baltimore (Md.) Police Department assigned to the Citywide Robbery Unit. Scott currently resides in Cecil County, Md., and is married with two daughters. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Shay Quillen, MA '01, is covering pop music for the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News. Previously, Quillen had been a copy editor for five years. "It's the best job I've had since they let me edit Vox," Quillen said, referencing the School's arts and entertainment weekly magazine. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Suzanne Struglinski, BJ '00, married Wayne Broadfield on July 15, 2006. She works in the Washington Bureau of the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is currently covering former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney's presidential bid. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Libby Volgyes, BJ '04, is a photojournalist at the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Fla. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Nicole (Sweeney) Etter, BJ '01, is a writer/editor for Marquette University's Office of Marketing and Communication in Milwaukee, Wis. Previously, Etter worked as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She and her husband live in Port Washington, Wis. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Geoff Gloeckler, BJ '02, is a staff editor at BusinessWeek magazine in New York, N.Y. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Lindsay Powers, BJ '04, is a reporter at Us Weekly in New York. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Brad. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Matt Allen, BJ '06, is a reporter and researcher for the St. Louis (Mo.) Business Journal. Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Jason Forget, BJ '03, graduated in May 2006 from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication with a master's degree in communication and corporate reputation management. Forget said his journalism background proved useful in his graduate studies: "Bringing the J-School education and skills to the corporate communications field has really allowed me to strike a balance between both sides of communications." Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Lauren Schutte, BJ '05, is the assistant to the editor in chief at US Weekly magazine in New York. Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Kristen Hawkins, BJ '06, is an account coordinator for IDPgroup in Columbia, Mo. Added: Feb. 12, 2007
After earning a master's in teaching, Mary Dempsey, BJ '04, is now a high school journalism teacher and adviser of school publications at O'Fallon Township High School in O'Fallon, Ill. Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Citing the station's community service in the face of "personal danger and ultimately great personal loss," the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism recently honored WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Miss., with a 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia-University Award for broadcast journalism. Even after Hurricane Katrina tore a hole in the newsroom's ceiling, WLOX continued to report for more than 12 days, collaborating with radio stations, local newspapers and its sister stations to keep the residents of South Mississippi informed about the disaster. In addition to the duPont award, WLOX has earned a George Foster Peabody Award and a National Edward R. Murrow Award for its Katrina coverage. Several Missouri Journalism alumni are members of the WLOX news team (pictured left to right): Rayanne Weiss, BJ '85, special projects manager; Dave Vincent, BJ '73, news director/station manager; Krystal Allan, BJ '06, reporter/anchor; Natalie Campen, BJ '86, executive producer; Mark Pardee, BJ '80, information technology manager; and Brad Kessie, BJ '87, senior reporter. Added: Jan. 31, 2007
Megan Stock, BJ '04, is coordinator of Web site services and publications with the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City, Mo. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 Christie Smythe, BJ '05, is a business reporter with the Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Mass. Added: Jan. 19, 2007
Nobelle de la Rosa, BJ '02, is a media planning supervisor on the SC Johnson account at Draft FCB (formerly Foote Cone & Belding) in Chicago, Ill. Added: Dec. 28, 2006 Jacki Langum, BJ '03, joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) in St. Louis as a staff attorney for the Homeless Legal Project. Added: Dec. 22, 2006 Mallory Brock, BJ '05, is a copy editor and page designer for Vance Publishing Corp. in Lenexa, Kan. As an undergraduate, Brock was one of twelve Missouri Journalism students to win a 2005 Dow Jones Editing Internship. [More] Added: Dec. 11, 2006
Timothy Dyer, BJ '03, is employed at GMR Marketing in Milwaukee, Wis., as an associate creative director. He works on various accounts for GMR, helping to generate ideas for a wide range of marketing programs across multiple media platforms. He said he enjoys his position, and he offered some advice for those looking at a career in creative services: "My best advice for a student who wants to be tomorrow's 'creative' is to get plugged in via networking. Linkedin (a Web-based networking tool) happens to be my favorite online method for networking. It is also important to become a pop culture follower. In today's world, ideas are being driven by technology and innovation. Literally, you can do whatever you can think of - prom partnerships, sponsorships, music, sports, charity, mobile, gaming, wireless - whatever it is, brands are jumping on-board to do it today, so you've got to be ahead of them." Dyer welcomes opportunities to discuss experiential marketing with others. Added: Nov. 22, 2006
Kristy Siegfried, MA '04, is a reporter for the United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). Based in South Africa, she is an HIV/AIDS journalist for its PlusNews service. She writes: "AIDS reporting can be tough, but it's not all doom and gloom. There are a lot of great projects and initiatives going on that I also try to cover. I visited four hospitals this past week in Malawi, and there is still so much work to be done in terms of trying to get treatment to everyone who needs it. It's hard to accept that someone should be denied the possibility of life because they happen to live in an area where treatment isn't yet available and that so many mothers still pass the virus to their babies because they can't get their hands on the one dose of anti-retrovirals needed to reduce the chances of transmission." Added: Nov. 16, 2006
Mark Geary, BJ '02, MA '04, won an EMMY in the interactivity category for a story about an Iowa couple living out the country, but running a million-dollar eBay DVD business. Mark worked with Web producers to develop a television news story featuring both on-air and online components. The combination of the news package and the special Web site earned him the EMMY award. Mark says, "I could never have won an award like this without the support and guidance I received at Mizzou. Now that I've worked in the 'real world' for a few years, I understand more than ever the value of my education at KOMU/MU. The University of Missouri has prepared me well!" Added: Oct. 31, 2006
An exhibit by photojournalist Melina Mara, BJ '00, was displayed at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Titled "Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate," the exhibit focused on the nation's most powerful women and the shifting leadership in Congress. Melissa Miller, BJ '00, is the director of the Spencer County Visitors Bureau in Santa Claus, Ind., effective April 17. She will coordinate marketing and public relations efforts to promote Spencer County as an overnight destination. Bill Reiter, BJ '00, and Laurie Mansfield, MA '00, were married in Irish Settlement, Iowa, on Oct. 8, 2005. The couple lives in Des Moines.
Jenny Sharp, BJ '01, was promoted to senior account executive at AbelsonTaylor in Chicago, the largest independent medical advertising agency in the world. Ann Molinaro, BJ '02, sends this update: "I'm finishing up my last year of law school at the University of Maryland. Then, after I graduate in May, I'll join my (by-then) husband in New York. Joe is completing his residency in Manhattan at the NYU/Hospital for Joint Diseases. Anne Kuhl, BJ '01, MA '02, is public relations manager with Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation in St. Louis. Brian Blank, BJ '03, is an associate producer with CNN in New York. Blank says, "Everything I know about journalism I learned at Mizzou. I got my job at CNN through the Mizzou Mafia, and I work with some proud Tigers here." Blank says the Missouri School of Journalism definitely has the greatest broadcast journalism program in the English-speaking world. Elise Hu, BJ '03, is a political reporter with KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas. Brooke Fisher Liu, MA '03, lives in Arlington, Va. Rachel Otto, BJ '03, is a media relations specialist at Saint Louis University's Medical Center in Missouri. Lauren Peters, BJ '03, lives in Richmond, Va. She is freelancing as an art director. Miun Seo, BJ '03, lives in the Kansas City metro area and works in public affairs/media relations for a national regulatory organization. She also is attending graduate school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City MA Program in English Language and Literature. Kimberly Watkins, BJ '03, is an associate editor with American Academy of Family Physicians in Leawood, Kan. Johnathan Woodward, BJ '03, graduated in 2006 with a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, Calif. Ana Connery, MA '04, is the editor of Florida Travel & Life magazine. The bimonthly publication reaches 125,000 readers with travel and lifestyle information about the state's various regions. Stephani Estes, BJ '04, is a media associate with Starcom Worldwide in Chicago, Ill. Bill McClain, BS '04 (Ag Journalism), is an account executive for Bader Rutter & Associates, Inc., in Brooksfield, Wis. Megan Moriarty, BJ '04, is an assistant account manager with Legacy Marketing Group in Mission, Kan. Chris Coplan, BJ '05, is a producer of WEEK TV in East Peoria, Ill. Lori Riddle Eberenz, MA '05, is an account manager with Guthrie/Mayes Public Relations, Louisville, Ky. Susan Gill, BJ '05, is a designer with The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. Laura Hobson, BJ '05, is an account coordinator for Avenue A/Razorfish in Seattle, Wash. The agency specializes in interactive marketing. Rebecca Marxer, BJ '04, MA '05, is communications manager with Global Diversity & Inclusion at Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mich. Zakiya Annette Summers, BJ '05, is a news producer with WLBT-TV 3 in Jackson, Miss. Lindsey Unterberger, BJ '05, is an assistant producer with iVillage in New York. Rachel Dennis, BJ '06, is an associate media planner for Kelly, Scott and Madison in Chicago. Breck Fleming Gamel, BJ '02, MA '06 (Education), lives in Durham, N.C. Sadie Gurman, BJ '06, won two first place awards in the recent Kansas City Press Club's Heart of America awards. "Is It Money Well Spent?", published in the Joplin (Mo.) Globe, won in the investigative reporting category. "Single Mom, Rookie Cop," published in the Boone County (Mo.) Journal, won the profile category. Gurman, a newspaper journalism major, is now working as a reporter for the Rockford Register Star, an 80,000-circulation daily in Rockford, Ill. Lindsey Jamis, BJ '06 (Advertising), landed a job as a copywriter at VML in Kansas City. "I've been there since June 2006 and am loving it." Derek Schnell, BJ '06, is morning producer with KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, Okla. 
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